Sergio Perez has said that he was ‘disappointed’ after crashing out during the first part of qualifying today in Monaco, and said that his Sauber team are still checking to see whether there was something wrong with the car.

HRT had what they describe as their best qualifying session of 2012 today in Monaco as Pedro de la Rosa finished the session just a tenth of a second off the pace of lead Marussia driver Timo Glock and within 103.6% of the best time.

Michael Schumacher was delighted to top the timesheets in qualifying today for the Monaco Grand Prix, even though he will not be sitting on pole position for tomorrow’s race.

Force India drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Paul di Resta found themselves in the middle of a competitive field during qualifying in Monaco today, and qualified eleventh and fifteenth respectively for tomorrow’s grand prix. Thanks to a penalty for Pastor Maldonado, the two drivers will actually start from tenth and fourteenth.

There were contrasting fortunes for the two Red Bull drivers during qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix: Mark Webber was second fastest but inherits pole position from Michael Schumacher, who serves a five-place grid penalty; Sebastian Vettel, on the other hand, chose not to set a time during Q3, and qualified only tenth.

Pastor Maldonado gave both his team and the race stewards some extra work to do today in Monte Carlo as he managed to heavily damage his car before qualifying and earn himself a ten-place grid penalty.

With Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa qualifying sixth and seventh for tomorrow’s Monaco Grand Prix, Ferrari got both cars into top-ten grid positions for the first time this season, and secured the best team qualifying result of the 2012 campaign so far.

Both Lotus drivers said that they had not qualified as far up the grid as they had hoped or expected today in Monaco in a close-fought session.

The two Marussia drivers had contrasting qualifying sessions today in Monaco. Although Timo Glock and Charles Pic were separated by only two places in qualifying – P20 and P22 respectively – their moods after the session, at least those conveyed by their analysis, were markedly different.

Michael Schumacher came out on top in qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix but the five-place grid penalty that he carries over from the last race in Barcelona will hand the pole position to Mark Webber.

Nico Rosberg of Mercedes was fastest in the final practice session for the Monaco Grand Prix with the lap of 1:15.159.

Toro Rosso Chief Engineer Laurent Mekies said that the team were left ‘frustrated’ by the rain that disrupted this afternoon’s free practice session in Monte Carlo.

Both Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg both said how pleased they were to get back out onto the streets of Monaco once again on a slightly disrupted day of free practice in the famous principality.

Williams Chief Operations Engineer Mark Gillan admitted that the team still have work to do ahead of qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday after rain disupted the second practice session today in Monte Carlo.

Romain Grosjean was arguably the star of the two free practice sessions today in Monaco, with the Lotus driver coming second in both the morning and the afternoon.

Not only was Timo Glock’s practice programme disrupted by the afternoon rain in Monaco, but his running time in the dry morning session was curtailed by a mechanical problem.